...removed from the strain, the anxiety, of material cares ? Shall we not then discover that mankind is only a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour ? The question, then, is not whether human nature changes, but whether under a more humane and economically...

...visitation, rise up and shake off the bonds that bind us, and live henceforth as those whom Thou hast made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour. Gracious Father! We confess the painful riddle of our being, that, while claiming kinship with Thee,...

...continuous Fall of Man is a doctrine easily believed. There was a time when man could be described as a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour ; but large numbers of our genus have lately shown themselves immeasurably lower than the beasts, amid...

...surrounded the building when first completed by the Divine Architect. Holy Scripture represents man as " made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour;" 3 as possessed of those faculties and perceptions, which raise him far above the level of the " beasts...

...the simple power of the will to do, all life bows to obey in the infinite world of God. The phrase "made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour"2 signifies that mankind holds within his hand of thought and feeling, most specifically within...

...injustice to the victim and to the community. The psalmist describes the human person as having been made 'a little lower than the angels' and 'crowned ... with glory and honour'. It is sometimes as difficult to believe this as it is to believe that man is more in the image of God:...

...die; — all of them, in economists' language, "as good as gold," and in Christian language, "only a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour." And I could count the like among my best-loved friends, with a rosary of tears. (29:424-25) It is Ruskin's...

...caring in the human spirit. We are being reminded in the words of the psalm that we were indeed created a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honour. I accept with humility and great appreciation the honours that you have thought fit to bestow on an...

...humanity. Yet, at present, we do not see everything as subject to us. But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death. So what does this mean? What we see in Jesus Christ was the original...

...together with Christ" (Eph. 2:4—5). Here, the apostle paints a picture of Adam's ruined race. Man was made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor. 213 He was set over the works of God's hands, a monarch of all he surveyed, God's vice-regent...